A Queensland guitar aficionado has been reunited with his $30,000 rockabilly collection a month after the instruments were stolen from his home on Brisbane's Bayside.

Detectives uncovered the 14 collectors' items, which had been signed by legends such as Jimmy Barnes, The Eagles, Chubby Checker and KISS, after searching properties in neighbouring suburbs after an anonymous tip off.

Nine guitars were found buried under a house in Lota and two were stashed inside the ceiling. A few had their precious signatures rubbed off.

A 50-year-old man has been charged over the theft.

Leonard "Merv" French was handed back the guitars at a police press conference.

"I nearly jumped out of my chair, I thought you bewdy," the 81-year-old said when laying his eyes on the guitars.

"It's a happy ending. They are not as knocked around as I thought they would be, but there will be some cleaning up.

"I'll give them a polish and put them back up on the wall.

"I think they'll look pretty near as good as they did when I'm finished with them."

Fan hopes musicians still alive will re-sign the guitars

Merv said he thought the theft from his Manly West home was a targetted attack as only his rockabilly guitars were stolen and several acoustic guitars were left untouched.

"I better not say what I really think of [the thieves]," he said.

"I paid money for them, and all of a sudden I lost them."

Merv gave up hope of ever seeing the guitars again and thought the thieves would have dumped them in the creek when they realised how hard they would be to sell on the open market.

Merv said he hoped the living musicians would re-sign the guitars which are missing their signatures.